Senior Lead Software Engineer C++ Developer

The Futures & Options Execution Technology team sits within Equities Technology and runs the end-to-end trading technology stack supporting high-touch low-touch and no-touch execution for the #1 ranked addition to our core franchise we deliver critical trading capabilities across other JPMorganChase lines of business.

We are in the midst of a significant multi-year investment and modernization program to build new best-in-class internally developed platforms replacing a mix of legacy in-house and vendor technologies.

The F&O Exchange Connectivity team sits within F&O Execution Technology. It is a globally distributed team running proprietary and vendor venue gateways and supporting systems around the world.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the F&O Exchange Connectivity team you will work on our proprietary software for venue connectivity order management market data and related systems for Futures & Options markets around the globe.

Job responsibilities

• Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions.
• Apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications.
• Use AI-first engineering practices to accelerate C development improve specification quality increase test coverage and reduce manual development friction while preserving human control and accountability.
• Develop deploy and maintain software that is secure supportable stable reliable resilient scalable predictable and performant (latency and throughput).
• Work closely with our DevOps and Production Management teams who provide L1/L2 support.
• Review and debug code written by others.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the F&O business and all F&O technology teams.
• Drive decisions that influence product design application functionality and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in your areas of focus.
• Contribute to the JPM engineering community advocating firmwide frameworks tools and SDLC practices.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• A demonstrable enthusiasm for using AI to accelerate C development.
• Hands-on practical experience of the C software lifecycle including system design development automated testing (unit system integration replay) deployment debugging and maintenance.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g. cloud artificial intelligence machine learning mobile etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Knowledge of modern C and C performance optimization.
• Knowledge of modern CPU architecture sockets and networking.
• Working knowledge of electronic trading order management or market data flow including recovery and the financial instruments of any asset class.
• User-level knowledge of Linux.
• Ability to work to the quality expectations and SDLC requirements of a major investment bank.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Computer Engineering Mathematics or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Demonstrable experience with spec-driven development leveraging AI agents
• Strong C20 proficiency including templates and template metaprogramming
• Proven low-latency systems experience (on the order of 1µs from message receive to send)
• Deep knowledge of modern x86 architecture (CPU micro-architecture caches memory hierarchy NUMA)
• Expert understanding of market connectivity/protocols: FIX exchange OMS/market-data protocols sockets TCP/IP UDP and kernel-bypass NIC APIs (e.g. efvi)
• Expertise designing and testing complex networked software systems including custom network protocols and corresponding test strategies
• Strong domain knowledge in electronic trading (algos/SOR/internalization) derivatives (futures/options) and Linux performance internals (kernel behavior CPU isolation core pinning) with a continuous-improvement mindset